Five Short Songs for Little Ones

A quintet of ditties with accompanying midis

School Bus
Bees in the Trees
I Bought Me a Horse
Swing Set
Doodley Doo

School Bus

There's a school bus

Ahead of us

We'd better honk at them

HONK! HONK!

[repeat]

Bees in the Trees

Bees in the Trees MIDI

          G
           Bees in the trees

                  Fmaj7  G
           And my pet is wet

           F
           Froggy is as groggy

                G
           As a froggy can get


[Parents sing:]          [Children sing:]

G     Am G               G     Am  G
I see Ba-by              I see Dad-dy [or Mom-my]

F6   D         G         F6    D         G
Baby can't see me!       Daddy can't see me!

I Bought Me a Horse

Bought Me a Horse MIDI

I bought me a horse

The horse pleased me

Fed my horse under yonder tree

Horse goes neigh, neigh

Sheep goes bleigh, bleigh

Pig goes griffy graffy

Goose goes lissie lassie

Duck goes quack quack

Hen goes simmy sac simmy sac

Guinea goes paw track paw track

Cat goes fay-lo-fay-lo-fee

Swing Set

Swing Set MIDI

C

Swing set

C      Am  C

Swings get wet

Bb                        C

When it's been raining outside



C

But not

C    Am   C

When it's hot

Bb                      C

Then all the swings are dried



Remember

Remember

Whether or not it's rained



Your questions will

Be answered and

Everything explained

Doodley Doo

Doodley Doo MIDIs

Simple
Extravagant

F       Dm-F

Doo-dle-y doo

Dm

Bo-dee-oh

Gm7

Fid-dle dee dee

    Db  C

Bah-zoo-kah

    Db  C

Muh-zur-kah

   F

Ka-ZOO!

Five Short Songs for Little Ones

Monday, March 17, 1997 - 11:02

School Bus — This discordant bit of nonsense is partly, if not entirely, Majic's creation. There really was a school bus ahead of us. I've done my best to duplicate the noise we make when singing.
Bees in the Trees — We came out of the garage one night, and neighbor Diana's dear old Bo, was standing there waiting for us, wet from recent rain. I said, "soggy doggy," and Baby Jo (as she was known then) cleverly replied "wet pet." The soggy doggy got changed to a groggy froggy some time later.
I Bought Me a Horse — I have fond memories of Grandfather D.M.Tyler leading us in singing this as we'd ride home from the farm on summer nights. Known as "I bought me a cat," there are many variations to be found on the web. Some websites list it as "traditional," but I've also found it credited to Aaron Copeland Although I knew since childhood that only the horse and the duck made the traditional English-speaking sounds, I never thought about how any of the others were spelled until I tried writing this up.
Swing Set — A playground song. Obviously.
Doodley Doo — We call this one our Family Anthem. Sheer goofiness by Daddy Don.
Offline for a long time, re-published on mindfulwebworks.com 2007 Apr 8. Reformatted 2011 Oct 8.
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